(AP Photo/Charles Krupa)īam Adebayo is no different. Miami Heat forward Jimmy Butler walks on the court in the second half of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Boston Celtics. ![]() He elevates his game, and he’s a guy we look at to lead us and to take us there.” Not to say in the regular season he’s not that, because he’s an All-NBA guy, but he just has another X-factor, another level to him that the great ones have. "He’s the type of guy who elevates his game and is at his best when his best is needed. “He’s a championship player," veteran Heat forward Kevin Love told Yahoo Sports. The Heat never stop coming, and Butler instills the confidence in his teammates that if they can just keep the game close, he will carry them to the finish line. Miami trailed by 13 points in the first half and 71-59 a minute into the third quarter, but that was close enough for a team that follows its leader's steady hand. For a guy who wants it so bad, and he works so hard at his craft, it’s important to enjoy his success, and he gives us all the confidence to be successful, aggressive and assertive. He’s one of the best players in the world for a reason. "It’s just great to be a part of this run he’s been on since I don’t know how long it’s been now. “It’s fun," added Kyle Lowry, who scored 13 of his 15 points in the second quarter of Game 1. Sunday, and Butler's teammates are already running out of ways to describe his most recent assault on the East. Game 2 is scheduled in Boston on Friday (8:30 p.m. "So, when it gets to high levels of competition, I’m taking Jimmy all day, seven days a week and twice on Sunday.” "Obviously, when you get to the playoffs, the level of competition is a little bit higher, and Jimmy is one of the greatest competitors that I’ve ever met," Udonis Haslem, whose two-decade Heat tenure has spanned the stays of Shaquille O'Neal, Dwyane Wade and LeBron James in Miami, told Yahoo Sports. The 33-year-old has as many 40-point nights in 107 career playoff games as he does in 754 regular season outings, and his latest performance was as good as any of them. ![]() Butler denied the existence of "Playoff Jimmy" after his 56 points swung the Heat's first-round series over the Bucks, but there's no denying it now.
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